So, any ladies here have any experience with the hormone replacement pellets?? I have quite a few menopausal coworkers doing this and they swear by it. Of course they don't have gut issues.
I have been slathering myself with 100 mg yam based progesterone cream for the past few weeks which is helping. I was just wondering if anyone has done this. The pellets are estrogen and testosterone. You need to take progesterone in a pill form also apparently...
Anyone, anyone??
Laine
Hormone replacement pellets
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Hormone replacement pellets
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Dear Laine,
I have no experience with hormone replacement pellets, since I took pills, but I will tell you that since I had to go off the pills due to breast cancer, I have been having normans almost every day. I am also gluten, dairy, soy, and legume free, and have been for 6 years, but without consistent normans.
My doctor put me on an anti-depressant to deal with the mood swings (which had been terrible before going on HRT), but I am having hot flashes again.
Martha
I have no experience with hormone replacement pellets, since I took pills, but I will tell you that since I had to go off the pills due to breast cancer, I have been having normans almost every day. I am also gluten, dairy, soy, and legume free, and have been for 6 years, but without consistent normans.
My doctor put me on an anti-depressant to deal with the mood swings (which had been terrible before going on HRT), but I am having hot flashes again.
Martha
Martha
Hi, Laine. I don't have experience with the pellets, either. I tried a low dose of estrogen a year or so ago but I didn't even finish the first prescription. It caused vision problems and I decided that it wasn't worth it. I am fortunate in that I don't get hot flashes. I get hot every once in a while but nothing that I would consider a hot flash.
Marcia
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Brandy-
So what's in the bioidentical hormones exactly?
I went with a friend, had all blood work done before hand. It was funny, the lady is a nurse practitioner and said that my thyroid tests were better than anything she had seen recently!!! So I got that going for me
My testosterone was 12...
I dont have a problem with the progesterone cream, but given how much I am slathering on 2x/day...and how small I am, I just feel like I'm bathing in the
stuff. Plus I am still doing magnesium spray which I am confining to my lower legs as not to overlap the progesterone cream....you get the idea. I am trying to increase my mag glycinate pills to 100 mg bid and see it I tolerate that (in addition to 300 mg via Remag through the day and evening..)...so that I can cut back or eliminate the mag spray....
I was just wondering what the experience of everyone on the board was.
Laine
So what's in the bioidentical hormones exactly?
I went with a friend, had all blood work done before hand. It was funny, the lady is a nurse practitioner and said that my thyroid tests were better than anything she had seen recently!!! So I got that going for me
My testosterone was 12...I dont have a problem with the progesterone cream, but given how much I am slathering on 2x/day...and how small I am, I just feel like I'm bathing in the
stuff. Plus I am still doing magnesium spray which I am confining to my lower legs as not to overlap the progesterone cream....you get the idea. I am trying to increase my mag glycinate pills to 100 mg bid and see it I tolerate that (in addition to 300 mg via Remag through the day and evening..)...so that I can cut back or eliminate the mag spray....
I was just wondering what the experience of everyone on the board was.
Laine
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"-Teddy Roosevelt
Hi Laine,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioidenti ... nt_therapy
Laine, I had 1 really rough year and not sure how much was MC and how much was menopause but I literally could not do math equations for work. Gyn P.A. put me on prescription prempro (estrogen). The prempro allowed me to do math equations but I got grinding headaches as a side effect that got worse with time. After 8 months of the grinding headaches on followup visit to Gyn PA I wrote a 2 page note with all of my symptoms and told Gyn PA that I needed to be referred to someone. Fatigue was mindnumbing at this point. I got do my job but was wiped out at 6:00 pm.
Gyn PA did bloodwork. I had zero testosterone (women are supposed to have some), progesterone, pregnenalone and DHEA barely registered in the labs and we are supposed to have some of each.
Gyn PA prescribed the bioidentical cream. It took me 6 months of using it until I started really feeling normal I think because my levels were so low.
I still have anger over the whole situation because the year before I shuttled between Gastro, PCP and Gyn PA complaining of mindnumbing fatigue.
When I talked to the gyn PA 12 months before about not being able to do math equations she told me she had never in 20 years of practicing had a woman complaining of that with menopause so she wanted to send me to a neurologist. I refused as I did not need to be circling around to a fourth doctor and she put me on Prempro (estrogen) which did help with the math equations.
Bottom line....with hormonal things sometimes it is an exploration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioidenti ... nt_therapy
Laine, I had 1 really rough year and not sure how much was MC and how much was menopause but I literally could not do math equations for work. Gyn P.A. put me on prescription prempro (estrogen). The prempro allowed me to do math equations but I got grinding headaches as a side effect that got worse with time. After 8 months of the grinding headaches on followup visit to Gyn PA I wrote a 2 page note with all of my symptoms and told Gyn PA that I needed to be referred to someone. Fatigue was mindnumbing at this point. I got do my job but was wiped out at 6:00 pm.
Gyn PA did bloodwork. I had zero testosterone (women are supposed to have some), progesterone, pregnenalone and DHEA barely registered in the labs and we are supposed to have some of each.
Gyn PA prescribed the bioidentical cream. It took me 6 months of using it until I started really feeling normal I think because my levels were so low.
I still have anger over the whole situation because the year before I shuttled between Gastro, PCP and Gyn PA complaining of mindnumbing fatigue.
When I talked to the gyn PA 12 months before about not being able to do math equations she told me she had never in 20 years of practicing had a woman complaining of that with menopause so she wanted to send me to a neurologist. I refused as I did not need to be circling around to a fourth doctor and she put me on Prempro (estrogen) which did help with the math equations.
Bottom line....with hormonal things sometimes it is an exploration.